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[Chad W]

6/19/16

Location: Trabuco Canyon, CA

Date: 6/17/16

Time:8:15

 

Found found this girl as an alate early in the night around 8:15 using a black light(removed wings 6/19/16). The only other L. occidentale i caught that night was infected with phorid flies. 

 

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Edited by Chad W, September 6 2016 - 6:29 PM.

[LC3]

These images aren't working. I get a 404 error.

Edit: 2 of the images work. They all work now.

Edited by LC3, June 19 2016 - 1:15 PM.

[Chad W]

 

Edited by Chad W, June 19 2016 - 1:16 PM.

[Chad W]

7/6/16
 

going strong. 
temp 70-80f

 

 

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Edited by Chad W, July 6 2016 - 12:56 PM.

[Chad W]

7/18/16

They pretty much all eclosed over night. 

 

 

 

 

[Ants4fun]

For some reason this will be the hardest time for your colony. Liometopum have this annoying problem where they like to die after a couple months.make sure you feed them a variety of things to ensure they are provided the proper nutrition. Hope this colony does well.

[kellakk]

For some reason this will be the hardest time for your colony. Liometopum have this annoying problem where they like to die after a couple months.make sure you feed them a variety of things to ensure they are provided the proper nutrition. Hope this colony does well.

 

In my experience, if you don't constantly feed the workers some liquid sweets, they'll start to die off.  Maybe that's what you're referring to?

[Ants4fun]

Yeah, at this stage they usually intake a lot more food than other ants. If they aren't provided enough they can work themselves to death.

[Chad W]

9/6/16

 

diet of mostly crickets, wax moths, and hummingbird water. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited by Chad W, September 6 2016 - 6:52 PM.

[dspdrew]

Nice. I had an awesome colony of these until the queen died.